I agree, it may not become an issue for a while, years even, but Conservatives and Socialist normally join together in their separate parties because of their political views. Nationalists (not just the SNP) have one over-riding cause, which is also Labours mistake of joining the Tories in the Union campaign of last year. Northern Ireland is an example where Republican and Unionist are more important than left or right. What happens when you discuss political policy? If a SNP Leader proposed privatising the NHS would they all support or if a different leader proposed nationalising the railways, water and electricity in Scotland would that be equally supported, let alone discussions about tax and education.

This gives the SNP a much stronger case to call for another independence referendum, especially if they win convincingly in the Scottish assembly elections next year. In these, frankly, revolutionary circumstances the question of the internal political stability of the SNP comes to the fore. In an SNP Scotland, moving ever closer to independence, are left and right nats comfortable bedfellows for the long term? Harold is right; there are many centre-left new SNP MPs, but equally, there are a good few who are, to put it mildly, not centre-left at all, they simply want independence. The woman Harold mentions as having being on the QT panel last week actually used to be a Tory until she defected to the SNP in 2000.

This will start to become an issue, one which, should Labour play its cards well, it ought to be able to exploit in its efforts to win back some of those 40-50 Scottish seats.

Glad to see you do not buy Murdoch, though it was not the question I posed no one buys the S** in Liverpool either. I am not a cheerleader for the murder of innocents unlike the Murdoch press, but as much as you might protest if you sup with the devil get a long spoon.

Until very recently, the Labour Party, who’s affection for Murdoch can be seen in these links:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3541842/Red-Ed-is-dead-says-Miliband.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8638614/The-great-Murdoch-conspiracy.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05/print-media-elections-newspapers-candidates_n_7212292.html

Harold, I have never bought a Murdoch title in my life. I have also not been a cheerleader for the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children as Labour Party members are.
Focus your attention on the real enemy – The Blue Tories and their Red counterparts infiltrating Labour.

Which Party in Scotland had the backing of the Murdoch press? I will not even buy a Murdoch paper, let alone vote for a party he approves of, shame.

If Stalin lived in Scotland, who might he vote for?
Certainly not the Labour party.

That is exactly what I intend to do. Let’s get these Unionist parties cleared away.